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Summer starts and Scout is six. Dill starts spending the summer in Maycomb and Scout and Dill fall in a childhood love.
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Scout starts school and doesn't like it very much at first.
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The kids go up to the Radley house and try to look inside. They were very curious about Arthur "Boo" Radley.
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Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to the Blacks' church because Atticus is out of town with the legislature
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Atticus' sister, Aunt Alexndra unexpectedly comes to live with Scout and tries to make Scout more like a lady, rather than a tom-boy.
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Dill runs away from his home because his parents weren't paying attention to him. He comes and spends time with Scout. He didn't come that summer so Scout was very excited to see him.
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The trial between the Ewells and Tom Robinson, who Atticus is defending, occurs. Scout, Jem, and Dill sneak out to watch it.
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Mrs. Merriwhether has a pagent on Halloween in honor of Maycomb. Scout is in it dressed as a ham.
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On the way home from the pagent, Bob Ewell follows the children and try to kill them, breaking Jem's arm in the process. Bob is trying to get back at Atticus for saying that he beat up his daughter Mayella instead of Tom Robinson.
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Boo Radley saved the children from Bob Ewell. He took Jem into the Finch's house. Scout didn't realize that it was Boo until she was almost finished retelling the story. Boo had been watching over the kid's the whole time and has protected them. Scout was so excited to have met Boo and couln't wait to tell Jem about it
